On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 07/13/2011 07:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:35 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe it it is an idea to build a whitelist for machines which do
>>> have working ACPI lid support? I realize maintaining such a list is
>>> a pain, but this way people who care and are lucky enough to have actually
>>> working hardware can at least use this ?
>>
>> It's an idea, but not one I'd do. Either a whitelist or a blacklist
>> would be oppressively large.
>
> I suppose a whitelist has the advantage that it can't hurt anything
> compared to the current state, and no matter how short it is, it
> benefits *some* people.
Yeah, that is my main reason for suggesting this, thanks for wording it
so eloquently for me :) Note I'm not volunteering to do the work
-ENOTIME.
Would something like "use_acpi_lid_status" kernel cmdline option be too ugly?
:)
At least it would be easy to parse (grep /proc/cmdline) ..
-- Pasi